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Thought in a Hostile World
The Evolution of Human Cognition
Taschenbuch von Kim Sterelny
Sprache: Englisch

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Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind.

The central idea of the book is that thought is a response to threat. Competitors and enemies make life hard by their direct physical effects. But they also make life hard by eroding epistemic conditions. They lie. They hide themselves. They seem other than what they are.

Sterelny uses this and related ideas to explore from an evolutionary perspective the relationship between folk psychology and an integrated scientific conception of human cognition. In the process, he examines how and why human minds have evolved. The book argues that humans are cognitively, socially, and sexually very unlike the other great apes, and that despite our relatively recent separation from their lineages, human social and cognitive evolution has been driven by unusual evolutionary mechanisms. In developing his own picture of the descent of the human mind, Sterelny further offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary [...] volume will be of vital interest to scholars and students interested in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology.

Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind.

The central idea of the book is that thought is a response to threat. Competitors and enemies make life hard by their direct physical effects. But they also make life hard by eroding epistemic conditions. They lie. They hide themselves. They seem other than what they are.

Sterelny uses this and related ideas to explore from an evolutionary perspective the relationship between folk psychology and an integrated scientific conception of human cognition. In the process, he examines how and why human minds have evolved. The book argues that humans are cognitively, socially, and sexually very unlike the other great apes, and that despite our relatively recent separation from their lineages, human social and cognitive evolution has been driven by unusual evolutionary mechanisms. In developing his own picture of the descent of the human mind, Sterelny further offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary [...] volume will be of vital interest to scholars and students interested in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology.

Über den Autor
Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and at the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Representational Theory of Mind (Blackwell, 1990) and the co-author, with Michael Devitt, of Language and Reality (second edition, 1999) and, with Paul Griffiths, Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology (1999).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface.

Part I: Assembling Intentionality:.

1. Evolutionary Naturalism:.

Two Projects Of Evolutionary Naturalism.

The Simple Co-Ordination Thesis.

2. Detection Systems:.

The Environmental Complexity Hypothesis.

Detection Systems.

The Power Of Detection Systems.

Transparent And Translucent Worlds.

Robust Tracking Systems.

3. Fuels For Success:.

Decoupled Representation.

Response Breadth.

Fuels For Success: Space.

Fuels For Success: Intervention In The Material World.

Reprise.

4. Fuels For Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis:.

The Cognitive Demands Of Social Life.

The Social Intelligence Hypothesis.

The Cognitive World Of The Great Apes: Imitation.

The Cognitive World Of Great Apes: Tracking Other Minds.

5. The Descent Of Preference:.

Internal Environments.

The Forager's Dilemma.

Preference Eliminativism?.

Preference-Like States.

Part II: Not Just Another Species Of Large Mammal:.

6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution:.

Testing Theories Of Human Evolution.

From Cognitive Device To Evolutionary History.

Making Progress.

An Example: Tomasello's Conjecture.

Conclusions.

7. The Co-Operation Explosion:.

The Co-Operative Primate.

Group Selection And Human Co-Operation.

The Ecological Trigger Of Hominid Co-Operation.

Coalition And Enforcement.

Commitment To Enforcement.

Upshot.

8. The Self-Made Species:.

Ecological Engineers.

Cumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive Condition.

Cumulative Niche Construction: The Social Condition.

Hominid Epistemic Engineering.

Downstream Epistemic Engineering.

9. Heterogeneous Environments And Variable Response:.

Phenotypic Plasticity.

Is Plasticity An Adaptation?.

Reprise.

Part III: The Fate Of The Folk:.

10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis:.

Massive Modularity.

Language: Paradigm Or Outlier?.

Communicative Intentions.

Fodor's Modules And Their Limits.

Inward Bound.

Evolution And Encapsulation.

The Poverty Of The Stimulus.

The Case Of Folk Biology.

Modularity And The Frame Problem.

11. Interpreting Other Agents:.

A Theory Of Mind Module?.

Deconstructing The Folk Psychology Module.

Interpretation, Perception And Scaffolded Learning.

Truth, Evidence And Success.

Co-Ordination And Meaning.

Something New Under The Sun?.

References.

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780631188872
ISBN-10: 0631188878
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sterelny, Kim
Hersteller: Wiley
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Kim Sterelny
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2003
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 102522121
Über den Autor
Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and at the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Representational Theory of Mind (Blackwell, 1990) and the co-author, with Michael Devitt, of Language and Reality (second edition, 1999) and, with Paul Griffiths, Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology (1999).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface.

Part I: Assembling Intentionality:.

1. Evolutionary Naturalism:.

Two Projects Of Evolutionary Naturalism.

The Simple Co-Ordination Thesis.

2. Detection Systems:.

The Environmental Complexity Hypothesis.

Detection Systems.

The Power Of Detection Systems.

Transparent And Translucent Worlds.

Robust Tracking Systems.

3. Fuels For Success:.

Decoupled Representation.

Response Breadth.

Fuels For Success: Space.

Fuels For Success: Intervention In The Material World.

Reprise.

4. Fuels For Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis:.

The Cognitive Demands Of Social Life.

The Social Intelligence Hypothesis.

The Cognitive World Of The Great Apes: Imitation.

The Cognitive World Of Great Apes: Tracking Other Minds.

5. The Descent Of Preference:.

Internal Environments.

The Forager's Dilemma.

Preference Eliminativism?.

Preference-Like States.

Part II: Not Just Another Species Of Large Mammal:.

6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution:.

Testing Theories Of Human Evolution.

From Cognitive Device To Evolutionary History.

Making Progress.

An Example: Tomasello's Conjecture.

Conclusions.

7. The Co-Operation Explosion:.

The Co-Operative Primate.

Group Selection And Human Co-Operation.

The Ecological Trigger Of Hominid Co-Operation.

Coalition And Enforcement.

Commitment To Enforcement.

Upshot.

8. The Self-Made Species:.

Ecological Engineers.

Cumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive Condition.

Cumulative Niche Construction: The Social Condition.

Hominid Epistemic Engineering.

Downstream Epistemic Engineering.

9. Heterogeneous Environments And Variable Response:.

Phenotypic Plasticity.

Is Plasticity An Adaptation?.

Reprise.

Part III: The Fate Of The Folk:.

10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis:.

Massive Modularity.

Language: Paradigm Or Outlier?.

Communicative Intentions.

Fodor's Modules And Their Limits.

Inward Bound.

Evolution And Encapsulation.

The Poverty Of The Stimulus.

The Case Of Folk Biology.

Modularity And The Frame Problem.

11. Interpreting Other Agents:.

A Theory Of Mind Module?.

Deconstructing The Folk Psychology Module.

Interpretation, Perception And Scaffolded Learning.

Truth, Evidence And Success.

Co-Ordination And Meaning.

Something New Under The Sun?.

References.

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780631188872
ISBN-10: 0631188878
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sterelny, Kim
Hersteller: Wiley
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Kim Sterelny
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2003
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 102522121
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